{"id":15280,"date":"2019-09-11T14:48:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T14:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=15280"},"modified":"2019-09-11T14:48:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T14:48:49","slug":"apc-may-no-longer-exist-in-2023-okorocha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-may-no-longer-exist-in-2023-okorocha","title":{"rendered":"APC may no longer exist in 2023 \u2013 Okorocha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator representing Imo West District in the National Assembly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/policy\/ihedioha-reveals-why-he-is-after-okorocha\">Rochas Okorocha<\/a>, has expressed fears that the All Progressives Congress, APC, may cease to exist when President Muhammadu Buhari leaves office in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Senator, who stated this while addressing journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, also lamented that his sacrifices to expand the membership base of the APC in the South-East was repaid by the party with evil.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI have never thought of leaving the party but what happens next will be determined by time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy only worry is that the party may disappear with the exit of President Buhari if the ongoing injustices are not addressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnlike other governors from the North that rode on the name Muhammadu Buhari to power, the name Buhari had a negative effect on my campaign for second term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I was determined to overcome that because I knew what we stood to gain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf anything, the party repaid me evil for good. There was no challenge I did not face or bad name I was not called in my state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey brought in people who fought me when I was building the party at state level to fight me over the control of the party. I don\u2019t want to talk about it but my party did not treat me well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator representing Imo West District in the National Assembly, Rochas Okorocha, has expressed fears that the All Progressives Congress, APC, may cease to exist when President Muhammadu Buhari leaves office in 2023. The Senator, who stated this while addressing journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, also lamented that his sacrifices to expand the membership base of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":5606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[97,502,501,158],"class_list":["post-15280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-buhari","tag-imo-state","tag-okorocha","tag-presidency"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>APC may no longer exist in 2023 \u2013 Okorocha - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Senator representing Imo West District in the National Assembly, Rochas Okorocha, has expressed fears that the All Progressives Congress\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-may-no-longer-exist-in-2023-okorocha\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"APC may no longer exist in 2023 \u2013 Okorocha\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Senator representing Imo West District in the National Assembly, Rochas Okorocha, has expressed fears that the All Progressives Congress\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-may-no-longer-exist-in-2023-okorocha\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-09-11T14:48:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Okorocha-Rochas.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"936\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"562\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-may-no-longer-exist-in-2023-okorocha#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-may-no-longer-exist-in-2023-okorocha\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"APC may no longer exist in 2023 \u2013 Okorocha\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-09-11T14:48:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-may-no-longer-exist-in-2023-okorocha\"},\"wordCount\":225,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-may-no-longer-exist-in-2023-okorocha#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Okorocha-Rochas.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Buhari\",\"Imo state\",\"Okorocha\",\"Presidency\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-may-no-longer-exist-in-2023-okorocha#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-may-no-longer-exist-in-2023-okorocha\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/apc-may-no-longer-exist-in-2023-okorocha\",\"name\":\"APC may no longer exist in 2023 \u2013 Okorocha - 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